Oldest Football Players Of All Time

One of the jobs you can conveniently true early from is football, or sports generally. Footballers literally retire in their youth, which is usually before or around the age of thirty five. Then they have the rest of their lives to enjoy all the money they made, which is usually also a lot of money. However, some goals have broken the norm. They were quite older than the regular footballer should be before retiring. So, this article compiles a list of footballers who played in their old age.

Francesco Totti

Totti is definitely a football legend – a one-club man, just like the present day Lionel Messi. His first game was played in 1992, since which he has now appeared in more than 560 games for his football club – Roma.

Although Totti is celebrated player, his team happens to not be one of the best. He has only won the Serie A Title once in his career. However, he has been able to immortalize his name and legacy on FIFA’s list of 125 greatest football players of all time. This list was complex by Pele himself.

In 2006, he also won the World Cup with his team mates for Italy. He retired on the 17th of July 2017, aged forty.

Ryan Giggs

There is probably a connection between playing for more years and not switching teams. Being a one-club man, Ryan Giggs played in the English Premier League for 22 consecutive seasons, at Manchester United. Retiring at the age of 39 on the 14th of May 2014.

Since 1991, Giggs have been playing for Manchester United and he made sure to net the ball at least once every season until Alex Ferguson left as the team’s manager. He holds this record as the only player to have scored in 21 consecutive seasons.

Ryan Giggs has also won the Premier league more times than any other player, 13 times. He had also appeared in more games than any other player 632 appearances.

Having had such an amazing career with 25 make honours, including the Premier League Title, the FA Cup and The Champions League, he is now an assistant coach at the club under Louis Van Gaal.

Roger Milla

Roger Milla breaks the record of old players who are one-club men. He has an incredible record to his name to have played for up to four decades. He definitely toured different teams and made a stop at eleven different teams, despite the fact that he appeared for Cameroon up to 100 times.

He played professional football till he was 44 years old. His professional career started from1968 and ended in1996. Out of 28 seasons, Roger Milla played in 26, and he scored a total of 432 goals in all.

He is the only 38 year old and African player to have scored Four goals in the World Cup (Italia ’90 World Cup). He also pioneered the dancing goal celebration, where he runs to the corner flag to perform a short dance.

He made another World record when he scored at 42, in a game against Russia at USA ’94 World Cup. He was oldest outfield player and oldest goal scoring player in the World Cup.

He was honored with the the plague of the greatest African footballer of the 20th century.

Other players include Peter Shilton, Paolo Maldini, Sir Stanley Matthews and a host of others. This did not only happen in football, but in every sport there is. Passionate athletes always defy age.

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